Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 11:50:03 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20070527
From: "Gabrelle Saurage"
                         Apache Point Observatory
                         3.5m Telescope Night Log
                          Sunday, May 27, 2007
                                                           ACTUAL
  ASTRONOMER     OBSERVER(S)             INSTRUMENT      START  FINISH
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  F.Hearty       F.Hearty                 NICFPS         22:30 01:00
  M.Mottini      M.Mottini                Echelle        01:03 05:41
   INST     SCHED(TWILIGHT)   WEATH     EQUIP     OBS     DAY  NOT USED
  I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B   USE   D    B
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  CU05/R     21:05  01:00    0   1.5   0    0    0   2.4   0    0    0
  UW12/R     01:00  04:56    0    0    0    0   1.3  2.7   0    0    0
   note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
                ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist: G.Saurage
Rain and clouds kept us closed for a few hours at the beginning of the
night. Around 22:00 the radar returns had dissipated, but we still had
thin cirrus all around. We opened around 22:30 with variable seeing and
stayed open the rest of the night. Seeing stabilized some second half.
Nic-fps needed it's exposure inited at the beginning of the night (biases
were saturated with NFS=0), but it immediately cleared and we lost no time
to it.
                       ------- FAILURE LOG -------
  PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
       (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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               ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus    Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt FWHM
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22:45 NICFPS     -105(610)  8  72  10.1 11.0 10.0  10.9 10.0   H  0.7
01:05 Echelle    -42(-588)296  49  10.3 10.9 10.1  11.2 11.1  ND3 1.1
                ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
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     16:00    58    34      3   324   (NW)    775   cloudy     none
     17:00    53    35     15   296  (WNW)    992   cloudy     rain
     18:00    47    36     14    10    (N)    839   cloudy     rain
     19:00    50    30      3    26  (NNE)   1383   cloudy     none
     20:00    53    24      2     3    (N)   1018   cloudy     none
     21:00    53    23      6   318   (NW)   1178   cloudy     none
     22:00    52    24      2   306   (NW)   1069 mstly clr    none
     23:00    50    26      5     3    (N)    957 mstly clr    none
     00:00    50    25      1   351    (N)    920 mstly clr    none
     01:00    54    17     11     8    (N)    891 mstly clr    none
     02:00    53    23      1   264    (W)    971 mstly clr    none
     03:00    49    25      6   119  (ESE)    926 mstly clr    none
     04:00    50    25      7   220   (SW)   1054 mstly clr    none
     05:00    49    27      7   179    (S)   1171 mstly clr    none
     Note: the wind was coming from the azimuth listed.
     The convention used is north=0 degrees, east=90 degrees.
     The dust count is particles > 1u per 0.1 cubic feet.
                              TELESCOPE STATUS
      Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 2.9.0
      Current TUI version: TUI 1.3